Organ-pipe.



PATENTED DEC. 3, 1907.

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A. GOTTFRIHD.

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ORGAN-PIPE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1907- Applioation filed August 9. 1906- Serial No. 329.859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTON GOTTFRIED, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Erie, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved OrganPipe, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved organ pipe arranged to respond quickly and positively to the sheet of wind, and to allow of obtaining different tonal qualities in a simple manner.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a sectional sideelevation of the improvement; Fig. 2 is a face view of the same; Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional plan view of the same on the line 33 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional side elevation of the same; Figs. 5 and 6 are sectional plan views of modified forms of the body of the organ pipe, and Fig. 7 is a side elevation of an organ pipe having a tapering body.

The body A of the organ pipe is made of suitable material and is given any desired shape, and the said body A terminates at its lower end in the foot B having the usual air inlet 0. The languid D at the junction of the body A with the foot B has its front edge provided with two bevels D and D extending in opposite directions from a common apex D that is, the top bevel D extends upwardly and inwardly into the body A, and the lower bevel D extends downwardly and inwardly into the foot B, as plainly indicated in Figs. 1 and 3. The lower bevel D is preferably nicked or serrated and is disposed opposite the similarl nicked or serrated lower lip E of the foot and the upper bevel D is at the mouth F and a short distance from the front plate G of the body A. The bottom of the languid is slightly curved upwardly or convex at the rear portion, and the top of the languid is hollowed out or concaved and is rendered gradually thinner from the front beveled edge to the rear end, see particularly Fig. 4. The outer or inner face of the front plate G is beveled adjacent to the mouth F, and the front plate G is flat throughout the length of the pipe and is made thicker than the remaining side and rear portions of the body A, as will be readily understood by reference to Figs. 3, 5 and 6.

The depth and cross sectional shape of the body A vary for producing difierent tonal effect thus for obtaining a very powerful and reedy tone a deep body A, such as shown in Fig. 3, is selected, and which body is capable of carrying a large volume of wind and capable of strong vibrations. Other styles of body are selected for giving different characters, such as reedy, stringy, dull, fresh, loud, soft, mellow, etc. Thus a pipe having a body as shown in Fig. 5 is for producing a moderate reedy tonal quality and a pipe having a body as shown in Fig. 6 is for producing a mellow tonal quality.

It is expressly understood that the front plate G acts as a lip and owing to its being flat leaves to the column of wind free sway without obstruction, such as found in the old style upper and lower lip organ pipe.

The organ pipe is provided with the usual dowel beard H forming an auxiliary device for the voicer, to regulate the direction of the wind. The dowel beard H is attached to the ears I extending forward on opposite sides of the body A. The upper end of the body A is rovided with the usual tuning flap J.

y the arrangement described the organ pipe takes the place of a reed pipe, and one of the main advantages of the construction shown and described is that a number of different tonal qualities may be readily obtained by changing the size and shape of the body to suit or imitate such tonal qualities as are produced by the trombone, oboe, saxaphone, trumpet, clarinet, clarion, or other like instruments.

The organ pipe can be readily made in any pitch or foot number, as 16 foot, 8 foot, i foot, 2 foot and 1 foot, with equally good results. The body A of the pipe may be put together either in one or more sections and all such parts may be made of different metals and of different thicknesses.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. An organ pipe having a languid pro vided with a thickened and double beveled front edge.

2. An organ pipe, comprising a body, a foot, a concavo-convex languid having a thickened and double beveled front edge to upper front plate, the lower bevel of the languid being nicked.

3. An organ pipe, comprising a body, a foot, and a languid having a double beveled front edge to direct the sheet of wind directly against the upper front plate, the underside of the languid being convex at the rear and the top of the languid being hollowed out.

4. An organ pipe, comprising a body, a foot, and a languid having a double beveled front edge to direct the sheet of Wind directly against the upper front plate, the latter being fiat throughout its length and beveled at its lower end and in the direction of its length.

, 5. An organ pipe, comprising a body, 'a foot having a nicked lip, and a languid having a double beveled front edge to direct the sheet of Wind directly against the upper front plate, the lower beveled portion of the languid being nicked and arranged opposite the nicked surface of the lip of the foot.

6. An organ pipe having a body curved in cross section and provided with a flat front plaice extending throughout the length of the 7. An organ pipe having a body curved in cross section and provided with a fiat front plate of greater thickness than the curved portion of the body.

8. An organ pipe, comprising a body curved in cross section and having a flat front plate of greater thickness than the curved portion of the body, and a languid .having a double beveled front edge and gradually decreasing inlthickness from the front edge to the rear.

9. An organ pipe, comprising a body curved in cross section and having a fiat front plate of greater thickness than the curved portion of thebody, a foot having a serrated lip, and a languid having a double beveled front edge, the lower bevel being nicked, the underside of the languid being convex at the rear and the top thereof hollowed out, the languid gradually decreasing in thickness from the front to the rear.

10. An organ pipe, comprising a body having an especially long flat front plate and a ANTON GOTTFRIED.

Witnesses HENRY KUGEL, HERMAN STAHL. 

